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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Old English
The Norman Conquest
Mathew Effect
2. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Anglo Saxon
Multisensory
Phonics approach
Syllable Instruction
3. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Impulsivity
Whole Language
4. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Whole Language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Syllable
V-e
5. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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6. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Tilde
CTOPP
Trigraph
Syntax
7. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Attention
V-e
Diphthong
Diagnostic Teaching
8. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Kinesthetic
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Adolf Kusmaul
Multi-Sensory Approach
9. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
Academic Achievement Tests
IMSLEC
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
10. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Visual Learners
Syllable
Dyslexia
Diagnostic Teaching
11. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Syntax
Phonemic/ decodable words
Visual Processing
12. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Accent
IMSLEC
Phonological Awareness
13. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Impulsivity
ALTA
Ability
Quadrigraph
14. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Suffix
GORT
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Consonant
15. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Percentile/ percentile rank
Comprehension
Modern English
Criterion-Referenced Test
16. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Raw score
Mastery level
Norm-referenced tests
Phonological Awareness
17. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
IMSLEC
Chall's Stage 2
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Impulsivity
18. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Rate
Six basic types of syllables
Open Syllable
Impulsivity
19. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Phonics approach
Open Syllable
GORT
Frank Smith
20. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Synthetic Instruction
Top-down Reading Approach
Chall's Stage 3
Fluency
21. Feeling through fingertips
Norm-referenced tests
Cognitive Assessment
Fluency
Tactile
22. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Samuel T. Orton
Auditory Learners
Cognitive Assessment
23. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Derivative
IDEA
Raw score
24. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Whole Language
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
[-'le
Universal Screening
25. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Frank Smith
Derived Score
Percentile
Trigraph
26. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Tilde
VC
Standardized test
Academic Achievement Tests
27. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD
Percentile/ percentile rank
Visual Learners
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
28. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Auditory Learners
Funding
Syntax
The Norman Conquest
29. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Percentile
Semantics
Modification
Cedilla
30. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Norm-Referenced Test
Six basic types of syllables
Phonology
Cognitive Assessment
31. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
Modern English
Samuel T. Orton
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
The Norman Conquest
32. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Macron
Closed Syllable
Stanine Scores
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
33. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Tilde
Norm-Referenced Test
Quadrigraph
Modern English
34. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Phonics
Simultaneous teaching
Mastery level
Attention
35. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Tilde
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
CTOPP
Trigraph
36. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Greek layer of language
V >
Chall's Stage 4
Visual Processing
37. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Expressive language
Old English
Oral Language
38. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Diagnostic tests
Joe Torgesen
Attention
Syllable
39. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
[-'le
Prefix
WIATII
RTI
40. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Modern English
Progress Monitoring
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
41. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
ADHD
Accommodation
Expressive language
42. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Standard Scores
WIATII
IEP
Curriculum referenced tests
43. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Cedilla
Composite Score
Vr
Three Layers of Language
44. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Pre-English
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Letter naming Chart
Towre
45. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Ability
Digraph
Great Vowel Shift
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
46. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
ALTA
Prefix
[-'le
47. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Consonant
Modification
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Auditory Processing
48. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Cognition
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
The Norman Conquest
49. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Closed Syllable
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
ALTA
The Norman Conquest
50. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Raw score
Components of Reading Instruction
Semantics
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...